Section 518 – State board to make rules on performance compensation.

• (1) In accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the state board shall make rules requiring a school district’s employee compensation system to be aligned with the district’s annual evaluation system described in Section 53G-11-507.

• (2) Rules adopted under Subsection (1) shall:
  • (a) establish a timeline for developing and implementing an employee compensation system that is aligned with an annual evaluation system; and
  • (b) provide that beginning no later than the 2016-17 school year:
    • (i) any advancement on an adopted wage or salary schedule:
      • (A) shall be based primarily on an evaluation; and
      • (B) may not be based on end-of-level assessment scores; and
    • (ii) an employee may not advance on an adopted wage or salary schedule if the employee’s rating on the most recent evaluation is at the lowest level of an evaluation instrument.

Amended by Chapter 408, 2020 General Session